Beyond Paper Dictionaries: Mining the Web for Technical Terminology in Chinese
Paper prepared for the Translation Teacher’s Certificate of the Consortium for the Training of Translation Teachers
author:
Nicky Harman
Imperial College, University of London
n.harman@ic.ac.uk
date:
28th March 2002
APPENDICES
APPENDIX 1 – THE KINGSOFT CIBA2001 DICTIONARY COLLECTION
APPENDIX 2 – WORLD DIGESTION MEDICAL GLOSSARY
APPENDIX 3 - HIV/AIDS ENGLISH-CHINESE GLOSSARY
APPENDIX 4 - ENGLISH-CHINESE GLOSSARY OF ELECTORAL TERMS
APPENDIX 5 - ENGLISH-CHINESE GLOSSARY OF LEGAL TERMS
APPENDIX 6 – ENGLISH-CHINESE GLOSSARY OF COMPUTING TERMS
APPENDIX 7 – EXCERPT FROM CHINESE GOVERNMENT URL ON 绿色食品标志 [GREEN FOOD LABELLING]
APPENDIX 8 – THE SOIL ASSOCIATION DEFINITION OF “ORGANIC”
APPENDIX 9 – “GREEN FERTILIZER”
APPENDIX 10 - BIOSAFETY
APPENDIX 11 - HOW TO USE SEARCH ENGINES IN CHINESE WEB MINING
Which search engine?
Since even those US and UK engines without a .cn domain (such as Altavista, Google and the metasearch engine, Copernicus), are successful in
locating a wide range of Chinese-based, Chinese language URLs, the translator has a choice between a great variety of search engines.
A metasearch engine like Copernicus from www.copernic.com (downloadable freeware version is called Copernicus 2001 Basic) has the
advantage of covering a number of different search engines in a matter of minutes. It provided me with many excellent hits, for example medical
material in Chinese on AIDS/HIV. Its disadvantage is that the basic version will not allow you to narrow the search down by specifying dates,
language or domains.
Other search engines will allow you to refine your search in various ways. My personal favourite is the Google Advanced Search facility, which
includes all Boolean queries, as well as allowing you to specify, amongst other things, the language of search, the domain (for instance .cn or .hk)
or even specific websites - .edu.hk for Hong Kong universities; .gov.cn for Chinese government sources. By a combination of the above methods
and routes and sometimes, indeed, just by chance, I have found a number of useful terminology resources.
In the table which follows, I have summarised the different syntax used by search engines and given examples of how to write queries.
SEARCH ENGINE
SYNTAX FOR THE QUERY
COMMENTS
www.altavista.com
anchor:english AND anchor:chinese
AND [source word/topic]
example: anchor:english AND
anchor:chinese AND autism
 The query must be entered on the Advanced Search
page.
 This will look for pages which have link buttons
labelled with the specified language, indicating that
the [English] version of that page is to be found there.
 Altavista will not accept Chinese characters in the
query box, so this method only works in the English to
Chinese direction.
To find the word required quickly, go to the Edit
function on the browser toolbar, and input the word in
the Find, on this page box.
www.yahoo.com
chinese AND [source word/topic]
example: chinese AND autism
 The query must be entered on the Advanced Search
page.
 Yahoo will not accept the syntax “anchor” or similar.
 Yahoo will not accept Chinese characters in the query
box, so this method only works in the English to
Chinese direction.
www.copernic.com
chinese [or China] [space] [source
word/topic]
 Copernic will not accept the syntax “anchor” or
similar.
 Copernic will not accept Chinese characters in the
query box, so this method only works in the English to
Chinese direction.
www.yahoo.com.cn
[source word] [space] [target
language] entered into the general
query box.
 www.yahoo.com.cn does not have an Advanced page,
but the general query will accept two words as a
Boolean query AND.
www.google.com
Example：艾滋病 english
 Note that the useful Find/on this page function will
work equally well with Chinese characters.
[source word] [space] [target
language] entered into the “with all
words” query box.
Example: 艾滋病 english
In the “languages” box, specify
Chinese Simp. or Trad.
 You must specify Chinese as the language of search if
you are searching on a word in Chinese, even if you
are looking for pages in English, otherwise it will
corrupt the Chinese characters on searching.
 The query must be entered on the Advanced Search
page.
 Google will not accept the syntax “anchor” or similar.
 It is not necessary to input Boolean query words like
AND. If you do so, Google will tell that it
automatically does a Boolean search and has
discounted that word.
 The domain box is very useful, for example requesting
.edu.hk or edu.cn will take you to the academic URLs
of China and Hong Kong. It will only accept one
domain at a time, however. In addition, be aware that
you need to specify the correct kind of Chinese
(Simp/Trad) in the languages box for a particular
domain, for example, C hinese Traditional, not
Simplified, for Taiwan, otherwise you will get
unrepresentative results, or none at all.
 Use the Find/on this page function as described.